MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 150, 31 July 1914, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before Messrs H. Langford aiid G. P. Agar, J.P.'s.) TO THE HIGHER COURT. Elizabeth Gillies was charged with .drunkenness. She admitted this, but strenuously denied having used obscene language, saying tliat she had ho words like those complained of in the charge sheet \in Lev vocabulary. She furthermore, disregarding . the warnings of the clerk of the court and Mr Rulfe, elected to be tried by the Supreme Court and a jury. She was told that perhaps her ease would not be heard for three months, but she was unwavering. For drunkenness she was sent to gaol for a fortnight, as any less period would hardly have done justice to her long amt laboriously compiled record. She appeared later in court and explained to Mr Bishop that Mr Smail, the city missionary, had confused-ier by whispering to her over the dock. -She had thought she had been advised to go . to the Supreme Court", else she would have elected to have been dealt with' summarily. Mr Bishop said that Gillies had a shocking list and. that this would be her thirty-first conviction. She would be sentenced to three months' hard ■ labour, the term to run on after the ex- - piry of the sentence of 14 days inflicted by the Justices of the Peace earlier in the morning.

THEFT. Albert Edward Levi James and Palmer Gore, two youths of . prepossessing appearance, were jointly charged 1 with hay- " ing stolen stationer's goods to the value of £3 8/9 from Frederick Easi\ their employer. They pleaded guilty, v ChiefDetective Bishop said that hitherto the lads had both had clean records and that their employer was quite willing to take them back again into his shop. The goods had not all been recovered, and there was still an amount of £2 4/- un-. accounted for. He would suggest that they, should each pay halt, of this, and go ;baek to their employer. The Bench took this-view and entered a ! ljhe repayment of the money still owing.' - fined foe; ASSAULT. Charles Clutterbuck, a wan ; and hope : . less looking youth;who described himself as a seaman, was charged with having assaulted a small boy named.Jqftn.NichoK son. A ccused pleaded . guilty <l -»nder provocation, " but no amount of questioning elicited exactly what this provocation was except that the assaulted' one had cast aspersions at the accused tral tree. This Nicholson denied and said that. thq, .assja-ult had fceen entirely unprovoked. The Bench took this view also, and fined the accused 10/-, with costs and witnesses' expends. j REMANDED. ' . George Hunter, charged with having disobeyed a maintenance jprder issued against him in Wellingtpn, was remanded to appear before the Magistrate there to-morrow morning.

BY-LAW CASES. William Bean, for motor cycling on the footpath, was fined 10/- with costs. Francis Pollard, who had no: light, was similarly dealt with. Charles Jones, who drove his car too fast over a street intersection, xras fined 10/- with costs. For leaving a horse and cart unattended, Robert McLeod was fined 5/- with costs. Claud Harper, who cycled at night without a light, was fined 5/-.